Am Dienstag, 13. Juli 2004 22:40 schrieb Reiner Klenk: > I saw this too on my new powerbook and I am sure I had selected to just > blank the screen as "sleep action". I would close the lid and the > powerbook would shut off the illumination as configured. If I opened the > lid after a few minutes everything was OK, but if the lid stayed closed > for a longer period the laptop shut down power completely (when running > on battery). I would then reboot the machine and, of course, get all the > messages about the filesystem not being clean. > There must be an additional event on these recent powerbooks that is not > catched by the kernel (2.6.7-bk9) and which occurs some time after the > lid has been closed. I ran a 'tail -f /var/log/messages' from my desktop > via ssh to the powerbook but there wasn't anything in the log when the > laptop powered off. Actually that was one of the reasons why I asked for > suspend-to-disk support because now I can close the lid and suspend > before the laptop powers off all by itself.
After reading this I think you are right. I recommend to forward this mail to linuxppc-dev mailinglist and send a copy directly to Ben Herrenschmidt. He should know about this if not already happen. Best Regards Matthias
